Chapter 4: A forgotten God
My life as a seedling has now gone.
I am green serpent or plant snake after I defeated and absorbed Xerxes.
I rise and look at my seedling servants that are now no no longer seedlings and now have been evolved to be just like me.
I want to check on my status again
*Ting*
Status Window
Name: Serperior
Race: Green pit venomous viper
State:
Low Lv Poisonous viper,
Leader of snake group
Title: Master of seedling, Last Stand
Level: 1
Physical stats:
Hp: 100 Mp: 0
Strength: 13
Agility: 15
Wisdom: 26
Intelligence: 28
Vitality: 31
Leadership: 8
Fighting spirit: 4
[Energy]: 3 J
[Nutrients]: 98 Ns
Energy Production: 10 J/H
Nutrients Absorption: 1 Ns/H
Possessed skill:
<< Growth >>
<< Respiration >>
<< Nutrients absorption >>
<< Root Wisp (Basic) >>
<< Root Bind (Basic) >>
<< Naming (Unique) >>
<< Command title skill (Beginning) >>
<< Fighting title skill >>
<< Poison making >>
<< Poison bite (Beginning) >>
<< Photosynthesis >>
<< Portable root (Unique) >>
Resistance:
5% poison
Divine Blessing : Demeter
Attribute: Nature/Poison
I have got new skills from evolved into plant snake.
“Poison making”, “Poison bite”, “Photosynthesis”, and “Portal root”
“Poison making” - This skill allows the user to make many type of poison with many effects.
Naturally these poisons can be produced from acids as well as user intake in your case snake. Also increases your poison resistance as more types of poison are being produced and stored in your body.
“Poison bite” - (Basic Poison attack: Beginning)
This skill allows the user to have a certain amount of resistance to poison to use as an attack skill. The user bites which injects the poison in your body into your opponents.
“Photosynthesis” - This skill allows the user as a plant or living thing that contains a certain amount of chlorophyll to absorb sunlight and convert it into energy for food production. Rate of absorption 10 J/H.
“Portable root” - (Unique) This skill allows the user to enter and remove roots from the soil. This skill allows the users to move with their roots.
Now I can move around and produce poison and energy as well as absorb nutrients but for some reason my nutrient absorption has reduced so much to almost nothing.
Oh well, I cannot do anything to change it anyway.
I feel hungry. I need to find something to eat.
‘Wake up all of you’
They begin to open their eyes and slowly rise.
‘We shall go to hunt our food and water than we will go to where our location is’
‘But we have never hunted before’
‘We were just plants before and how can we go to hunt’
‘We know nothing about what is outside’
‘Calm down every one of you’
I look at them.
‘Yes you are right Freya, we know nothing about the outside but if we don’t go and experience then we might as well just do nothing and die of hunger’
All of them look at me with guilty eyes before nodding at what I said.
‘Then we all need to find a way out’
I begin to look around but there is nothing that could be a hole even if it was a hole, it was not big enough for us to get though.
I continue to look around.
‘Paggg, you have been bitten by a nameless scorpion and lose 19 Hp’
I have been bitten by a scorpion and lose almost one fifth of my Hp.
I notice the scorpion on my tail and without a second thought I swing my tail to the ground and it dies.
“Level up’
I am amazed at how I just killed a scorpion and gained a level.
Then suddenly I hear a voice
*Ting*
I look down to realize that the scorpion corpse has gone and left its skins, a tail and puddle of green liquid.
I guess the puddle is the scorpion blood but what happened to its body.
Oh well, even if I know there nothing that I can do about it anyway.
What should I do to the skin and blood.
I turn my back toward my once servants now my brothers and sisters.
I saw them look around. Which I found cute.
You may think I am weird to think that snakes can be cute but if you see as a snake you realise that they are not scary at all.
I turn my attention back to the puddle. I think what if the blood is poison. Can I produce new type of poison from this.
‘If I don’t try how can I know’
I slowly take a drop of the blood into my mouth.
I wait for any sign of side effect until suddenly I felt a sharp pain run down my throat like being slashed with a knife.
While I suffer from the pain a screen pops up.
*Ting*
Unknown liquid has been detected in your body and has been detected as scorpion blood acid.
*Ting*
The blood acid has weak poison properties to it that can be used to combine with your original poison and can also be remembered by your body to create the poison in future.
“You can now produce produce scorpion blood acid as your new type of poison. “Scorpion blood acid has a slow activation time but lasts for a long period of time and even though it is weak poison it can be used to stop nerve function for a certain time’
Do you wish to produce and store the scorpion blood acid?
In the process of producing new type of poison you will suffer from poison you don’t have resistance to the new type of poison.
I will suffer but I think I will benefit from it later.
‘Yes’
*Ting*
Your body has now started to analyse the poison and remember the properties and produce the poison.
This process will take 5 minutes.
I start to feel pain like I have been slashed with a knife.
‘1 Hp’
‘1 Hp’
It has been like this for four minutes and half.
I lose three quarter of my hp. Then suddenly
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*Ting*
You have endured the pain from poison making process. You have obtained a new stat “Endurance”
*Ting*
Congratulations, you have completed the poison making process. You can now produce scorpion blood acid as your new poison type.
I was so happy that my suffering has ended and that it is worth it.
Without realising it I am crowned by my snake family.
‘What is it Sin’ - Serperior
‘I have found a hole that we can climb to get out of here’
‘Sin, please lead’ - Serperior
‘Yes’ - Sin
I have realise that Sin and Luke are male. Then Tae-goo and Freya are female.
After we finished the conversation Sin leads us to the location of a hole.
It was a hole not big nor small it is large enough for me and my snakes to go through it without a problem.
‘I will go first and all of you follow after me’
I turn my eyes to look at them. They all nod.
I pull myself up the hole and quickly go out of the hole.
‘You all follow after me’
‘Yes’
I turn my attention to my new surroundings.
I am amazed by the sight.
It is a temple before me and my underling snakes.
It is a magnificent sight. The ruin is deep in the forest. There are noise of insects, whirring of cicadas, songs of birds, and screeching of monkeys.
It is cool and moist. Moisture is dripping from the leaves, moss growing on the ancient stones. There is a gentle yet cool breeze, sunlight reaches the ground through the jungle canopy creating dappled shadows.
The temple itself is dilapidated, centuries old, tumbling down stones holding up winding roots of fig trees with heart shaped leaves.
It is serene, so peaceful that you might think it a dream, haunted by long dead priests with ancient echoes of priests praying.
Statues of reclining gods and goddesses, scattered bones being cleaned by insects, deep in the shadows is a golden statue of Gaia reflecting flickering candles, raised relief carvings of angels and demons.
The ceiling has a mural of heaven, earth, and the underworld. Entrance to the temple guard by vigilant sea serpents.
As I was amazed by the scenery. A window popped in front of me.
*Ting*
You have discovered “An ancient temple of a forgotten god”
A long time ago this temple was used to pray to Mother Nature Gaia. It was during the great civil war of God during the golden age as Olympian gods and goddess fought against their father and mother Titans. Since then the temple has been abandoned and people declined to believe in Gaia. As more people started to believing in the Olympian God and Goddess
*Ting*
Quest Window
Since the great civil war between the Olympian and the Titans. The people decline to believe in her greatness Gaia. As she does not have power to protect nor take care of them during their sickness and fear. You and your underlings are “Green pit venomous viper” have a responsibility to spread and take back your mother pride.
Progress:
Spreading Gaia influence,
Reconstruct the great temple,
Have a statue of Gaia built in a village.
Quest Requirement:
Allow for Plant and Animal races that are created by Gaia.
Quest Rewards:
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Gaia, Mother Nature?
A quest and influence of Gaia?
A first quest
‘Yes I have got a first quest’
‘Serperior, I think we should explore the temple’
‘Good idea Tae goo’
As we start to explore inside the temple there are a lots of valuables such as gold, silver, and copper plates.
‘Sss’
I turn around to find that there are skeletons scattered on the floor.
I am shocked and stumble backwards to find a golden statue of a woman with a beautiful face.
*Ting*
You have discovered a sculpture of ‘Gaia’
Long time ago, a great sculptor created a statue using a process that has never been seen by other sculptor. The process involved tailoring, blacksmithing, and lastly carving.
Bonus of discovery: You gain a new status called “Art” and “Charm”. You also gain 5 Str,Agi,Ins, and Wis.
you as a creature created in the hand of Gaia gain a special blessing “Overgrowth”
*Ting*
“Overgrowth” - This blessing allows creatures that have affinity to nature to gain the ability to accelerate growth and manipulate nature as they wish.
What I gained a divine blessing “Overgrowth”
*Ting*
(Status Window)
(Name): Serperior
(Race): Green Pit Venomous Viper
(State):
Low level poisonous viper,
Leader of snake group
Title: Master of seedling, Last stand
Level: 3
Physical Stats:
Hp: 89 Mana: 0
Strength: 25
Agility: 32
Wisdom: 40
Intelligence: 42
Vitality: 37
Leadership: 10
Fighting spirit: 6
Endurance: 4
Art: 5
Charm: 5
[Energy]
[Nutrients]
Energy Production;
Nutrients Absorption:
Possessed skills:
<< Growth >>
<< Respiration >>
<< Nutrients absorption >>
<< Root wisp (Basic) >>
<< Root bind (Basic >>
<< Naming (Unique >>
<< Command title (Beginning) >>
<< Fighting Spirit title >>
<< Poison making >>: (Scorpion blood acid)
<< Poison bite (Beginning) >>
<< Photosynthesis >>
<< Portable root (Unique) >>
Resistance:
5.5% to poison
Divine Blessing: Demeter/Gaia
Attribute: Nature/Poison
I am shocked that looking at a sculpture can give me a divine blessing.
I cannot do anything else anyway so I turn back to my underlings.
‘I think we should stay here and rest for now we can sort things out tomorrow’
They nod.
As they fall into sleep one by one.
I am looking at what we should do tomorrow.
I fall into slumber.
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